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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850. Excerpt: ... SERMON XVII. CHRIST THE PROPHET FORETOLD BY MOSES. Dkuteronomt Xviii. 18, 19.--I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in bin mouth; and he hall apeak unto them all that I shall command him: and it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. There are three things in the Old Testament dispensation which had a very special relation to the expected Messiah--the promises which originated, and sustained hope--the prophecies which foretold him; and the types which prefigured him. Each of these was numerous, explicit, and significant. They were pledges given to faith, and hope, and previous announcements of what he should be, and do. To us, no less than to them, they are of the utmost necessity and value. Their verification, and fulfilment in Christ, lie as the foundation on which our conviction rests that "Jesus is the Christ." He came in manner, time, and place; he lived, he performed, be suffered, he died, and he rose again--"according to the Scriptures." The coincidences are so numerous, minute, exact, and undeniable as to leave no shadow of doubt. This, most manifestly, is he, of whom Moses, and the Prophets did write. A reference to the particular prophecies which related to him cannot now, be attempted. I remark in general--1st. There has never been any other person to whom they could, with any truth, or probability, be fairly applied, even in general. None whose life, and character accorded with the description. The whole race of man, in all its varieties, furnishes not even an imperfect counterpart. If Jesus Christ be not intended, and they correspond not to him, they have never been verified, nor fulfilled. 2d. Tq Ch...
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